Tag: exoplanets
Researchers scrutinize the universe to reveal life on exoplanets
Since the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system in 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for this feat),…
By car, TGV or at the speed of light: how long to reach these exoplanets?
Even at the speed of light, space travel takes considerable time. On one of its sites, NASA gives an overview of the time required to reach certain exoplanets, with various…
We’ve Detected the Heaviest Element in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere — It’s Weird
Detected less than 10 years ago, the two exoplanets WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b amaze astronomers even today. This time, it is their atmosphere that harbors an element that should…
Have fun generating habitable exoplanets with this simulator
This generator makes it possible to simulate each time a brand new exoplanet (non-existent, but “credible”). What could a habitable planet look like that is not Earth? To date, we…
New exoplanets soon to be discovered thanks to the Gaia telescope?
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist February 01, 2022 at 4:35 p.m. 4 The Milky Way, its gas clouds and billions of stars… © ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgment: A. Moitinho…
TESS space telescope has over 5000 candidates for exoplanets
The NASA space telescope TESS has now found a total of more than 5000 possible exoplanets, leaving its already extremely successful predecessor Kepler behind. A year ago the TESS catalog…